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You need to go down to HR and have them very clearly document what your Job Description is and then negotiate more money when they want you do something outside of it or demand they hire someone to fulfill roles that aren't your problem. You're walking to your own destruction otherwise. They'll work you to death.
Oh so this is just gonna get worse huh
On top of all the wild shit they're having you do, you're also gonna have to maintain it while building the next thing, and the next thing, etc.
I once did IT at a low voltage life safety shop (fire, security, access control) and I finally took a vacation for a week, while still being on call of course. When I got back I found out they had a meeting with some radio monitoring company without me and had bought like 500 fire system monitoring radios that they needed me to set up the antenna system and dual internet gateways for them. They not only basically signed me up to be the IT support for a fire system monitoring company they just created out of thin air, they expected me to build a fucking antenna for them in the back lot. Like the kind tall enough to climb. Because I work with the computers.🤦
It sounds like one of those things that are like, "Yeah I can do it, but why use someone less skilled and underpaid for it?"
Hiring new people are wildcards. They already have power over you. Bosses like that very much have a sense of ownership over their employees; With expectations that if they say something, it should get done regardless.
It's the kind of situation where that boss is begging to have work done to a substandard quality.
The thing about it is that the job description is very vague. Like I’m doing a lot of the job description but also a lot more. So maybe this is a lesson to read and think more carefully about the job description next time 💀
It’s like I’m building, testing and executing all the code I write (and steal) and asked to be an expert in both the server and client side AS WELL as database design, implementation and management. Not for a ton of people yet but still
Yeah, that sounds like a nightmare in progress. But it also sounds like they don't really know what they're asking for. Personally, I'd milk it doing the bare minimum while looking for something else. Throw them breadcrumbs from time to time, but look to get out of there. I'd probably even let ChatGPT write most of the code. 😅 There's no happy ending long term.